The Farm Products Marketing Commission has ruled in favour of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers on a proposal which could have created a new, lower priced category for tomatoes.
Highbury Canco Corporation had proposed the creation of an end use category of tomatoes for industrial paste for resale.
The OPVG argued there was no difference between that proposed category and the already existing tomatoes for paste category.
The Commission agreed.
The OPVG says that ruling means 2015 agreements for all Ontario tomato processors are now in place.
Final pricing is subject to the establishment of prices in California.
Preliminary pricing at this point ranges from 117.25 a ton for the lowest category to 127.25 a ton for the highest category of Ontario grown tomatoes.
